110 Wash. 2d 658 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2021
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Byars v. United States · Anthony v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to impute the illegality of the private citizen to the state, the latter must have in some way instigated, encouraged, counseled, directed, or controlled that conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It must be shown that the State in some way `instigated, encouraged, counseled, directed, or controlled' the conduct of the private person.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For agency to exist there must be a manifestation of consent by the principal (the police) that the agent (the informant) acts for the police and under their control and consent by the informant that he or she will conduct themselves subject to police control. See Turnbull v. Shelton, 47 Wn.2d 70, 72 , 286 P.2d 676 (1955); Poutre v. Saunders, 19 Wn.2d 561, 565 , 143 P.2d 554 (1943).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.